In the 1930s there was a return to a more genteel, ladylike appearance.

To show off the styles a slim figure was essential and that was getting easier for women who were educated and aware as many now used contraception and did not have to bear baby after baby unless desired.

It was her late 1930s tailored suit designs which were thought the most suitable clothing to embrace in the war years rather than the wasp waist bouffant dresses that were shown just before the war started.

In this view, Hughes's 1930s efforts in many different genres--including short and long fiction, poetry, drama, reportage, song writing--largely sounded over and over the same ham-fisted didactic note, lacking the lyric humanism and folk wit of his work in the 1920s, 1940s, and 1950s.

But it is unquestionably true that Hughes's participation in the Left increased astronomically during the 1930s and had a marked impact on the form and content (to use a favorite phrase of Left cultural critics of that time) of Hughes's poetry.

In this regard, it is ironic that with the plethora of critical discussions of the trope of the trickster and his or her linguistic polysemy, virtually none examine the work of Hughes, and certainly none consider his revolutionary poetry in this manner.

The South American nutria became a subject of interest in the fur industry back in the early 1930s when their large size and high reproductive potential held promise for fur farming businesses in North America.

Many of these farms, however, did not succeed and the animals either escaped or were intentionally released to the wild, which resulted in the wild populations present today.

Wild nutria were first reported in Oregon during the 1930s, including colonies along the Nestucca, Columbia, and Willamette Rivers in western Oregon, and the Umatilla and Grande Ronde Rivers east of the Cascades.

www.dfw.state.or.us /springfield/Nutria.html (1908 words)

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Some of the writers of the 1930s were better known in the Twenties.

This could have been due to the fact that the people living during the 1930s did not want to read about flamboyant parties and the easy life while they were facing the hard times of the Depression.

Many people of the 1930s, however, were able to relate to the problems that the Joads went through because hard times had hit them just as hard and almost everyone was struggling to make ends meet.

Baseball in the 1930s was a very, very significant part of American life, of America.

What really mattered in the 1930s -- the country was coming out of the Depression in the middle 1930s -- times were getting better and people finally had a few dollars that they could do some entertaining with.

Census figures and other data reveal that cooperative farm supply purchasing has skyrocketed from $75.9 million in 1924 to an estimated $250 million in 1934.Dr. Joseph Knapp, principal agricultural economist in the Farm Credit Administration, says the most striking development has been the spread of purchasing to almost all parts of the United States.

In the early 1930s, the exchange developed a method of bleaching and dyeing nuts.

By 1938, it began stamping each nut with the exchange's trademark and, by 1939, nearly all of the fall and winter nuts were branded.

Evacuee (from the French evacué) is a word still in use which appears to derive from directly from preparations for air attack in the 1930s; the first use in The Times is from 1938, in the aftermath of Munich.

There were plenty of novels dealing with this subject written in the 1920s and 1930s, at least as it related to aerial warfare.

The Nationalist version of Guernica — that it wasn’t bombed by fascist aircraft, but instead set alight by the Basque defenders themselves — was not widely accepted at the time, but for decades afterwards it was still plausible enough for some people to believe.

The 1930sdecade (and most of the 1940s as well) has been nostalgically labeled "The Golden Age of Hollywood" (although most of the output of the decade was fl-and-white).

The 30s was also the decade of the sound and color revolutions and the advance of the 'talkies', and the further development of film genres (gangster films, musicals, newspaper-reporting films, historical biopics, social-realism films, lighthearted screwball comedies, westerns and horror to name a few).

Special-effects processes were advanced by the late 1930s, making it possible for many more films to be shot on sets rather than on-location (e.g., The Hurricane (1937) and Captains Courageous (1937).) In 1937, the Disney-produced Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) was the first feature-length animated film - a milestone.

Hollywood has maintained a consistent grip on the worldwide imagination, and European film, British movies and Bollywood have all been in the limelight, while entertaining their own audiences.

The fashion in Hollywood stars has also changed over the years - from the first global stars in the 1930s, through the glamorous 1950s and grittier 1970s, to today's actors and actresses and their love-hate relationship with the media.

And throughout it all the Oscars have been a marker for the state of cinema, usually rewarding movies, actors and directors for what have gone on to be lasting achievements.

A group of visionary French football administrators, led in the 1920s by the innovative Jules Rimet, are credited with the original idea of bringing the world's strongest national football teams together to compete for the title of World Champions.

The original gold trophy bore Jules Rimet's name and was contested three times in the 1930s, before the Second World War put a 12-year stop to the competition.

When it resumed, the FIFA World Cup rapidly advanced to its undisputed status as the greatest single sporting event of the modern world.

www.soccerhall.org /history/World_Cup_History.htm (658 words)

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Construction on some of the most famous American landmarks was also begun in the 1930's.

Editors note: The 8th grade graduating class of 2002 at Pocantico Hills School has researched the 1930s and pointed you to some highlights from this amazing decade.